This is a new and interesting experience. I'm genuinely not sure whether you're making a reference to Jonathan Swift or computer architecture. The mind reels.
Well, I'd expect this sort of behavior from Uranus, but Earth?!!
(as a bonus, this sentence reminds me of... "Well, I expect to hear that sort of language at Denny's, but...")
No, it would be idiotic. The moon stores a huge amount of angular momentum. That's energy, folks. Let's see... we could waste a whole lot of energy trying to stop it, or we could leave it as it is so that years from now we may harness it usefully.
Anyone read _Signal to Noise_, incidentally? Great book.
Not that I disagree with your conclusions, but I think your argument is wrong. Obviously, if the two things are duct-taped together, they're going to potentially exert forces on each other -- the faster orbiting one will pull the other one along and so on.
Maybe a better analogy would be a bag of marbles -- take away the bag and the marbles don't orbit any faster or slower.
The ones I notice most often are acronyms. Postings under the Developers category do this a lot -- they'll say "New version of XDTBA 7.0.1 has been released, now with support for GHTA and a PH4S-compliant YRT interface!" To quote Ellen Feiss, "..............huh?"
While I agree with your sentiment, I question its application in this circumstance. I think that most of us *do* know what a cyclotron is -- not to say there's anything wrong with you if you don't, but you are in fact in the minority here. There are *plenty* of *far* more egregious examples of the problem you describe here on/. -- go pick on them first.
If you continue to use the credit card with a company after listing that company as unauthorized to bill the card, I'm pretty sure that qualifies as fraud.
I dunno... did you see that lego harpsichord a few weeks back? That's a fair bit of tension -- of course, he did a harpsichord rather than a piano because there's no way legos could take *that* much abuse.
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Hmmm, you know, this could open up whole new world for the 1-900 phone sex industry.
Have you priced a decent vibrator lately?
Hey, that's not funny. I heard that actually happened to some people a while back.
This is a new and interesting experience. I'm genuinely not sure whether you're making a reference to Jonathan Swift or computer architecture. The mind reels.
What? What?
You keep on using that word. I dunna think it means what you think it means.
Well, I'd expect this sort of behavior from Uranus, but Earth?!! (as a bonus, this sentence reminds me of... "Well, I expect to hear that sort of language at Denny's, but...")
No, it would be idiotic. The moon stores a huge amount of angular momentum. That's energy, folks. Let's see... we could waste a whole lot of energy trying to stop it, or we could leave it as it is so that years from now we may harness it usefully. Anyone read _Signal to Noise_, incidentally? Great book.
Not that I disagree with your conclusions, but I think your argument is wrong. Obviously, if the two things are duct-taped together, they're going to potentially exert forces on each other -- the faster orbiting one will pull the other one along and so on. Maybe a better analogy would be a bag of marbles -- take away the bag and the marbles don't orbit any faster or slower.
My applause to whoever modded this "Insightful." Hee hee.
Ah, so you've seen my work! Like it, did you?
Um, lawyers have been the devil's instruments since time immemorial.
Sorry, we reserve holding guns to researchers' heads for when they are working on anti-Patriotic projects. :P
The ones I notice most often are acronyms. Postings under the Developers category do this a lot -- they'll say "New version of XDTBA 7.0.1 has been released, now with support for GHTA and a PH4S-compliant YRT interface!" To quote Ellen Feiss, "..............huh?"
So, just repulsive force then? Wow, a 4600lb. MONOPOLE magnet! That's *really* something!
While I agree with your sentiment, I question its application in this circumstance. I think that most of us *do* know what a cyclotron is -- not to say there's anything wrong with you if you don't, but you are in fact in the minority here. There are *plenty* of *far* more egregious examples of the problem you describe here on /. -- go pick on them first.
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Kindergarten LIED to me! And, uh... CURSE YOU, SESAME STREET!
No, the parent was right -- this is Slashdot, after all. Recognizing lame jokes is a vital survival skill around here.
Unless they're billing you for charges you didn't accrue, I'd say you're still using it. It's deceptive.
There's plenty of anti-nanotech freaks, though. Google "grey goo" and you'll see what I mean.
...Suck! ...Suck! ...Suck!
Creativity killed the cat? That's curious.
If you continue to use the credit card with a company after listing that company as unauthorized to bill the card, I'm pretty sure that qualifies as fraud.
I dunno... did you see that lego harpsichord a few weeks back? That's a fair bit of tension -- of course, he did a harpsichord rather than a piano because there's no way legos could take *that* much abuse.